CIA largest budget items: election tampering & news propaganda

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

CIA largest budget items: election tampering & news propaganda.

Now the Bush PNAC cabal wouldnt be in control by BushSR the CIA man,
now would it ? <sarcasm>

Now the US news media wouldnt be controlled by CIA money,
now ould it ? <sarcasm>


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http://jeremybigwood.net/AJR/Intro2PikePapers.htm#The

From the text:
Introduction to the Pike Papers
by AARON LATHAM
the village VOICE
February 11, 1976

It may surprise some to discover that the largest single category of covert activity concerned tampering with free elections around the world. These election operations make up a full 32 percent of the covert action projects approved by the Forty Committee since 1965. The report says the operations usually mean "providing some form of financial election support to foreign parties and individuals. Such support could be negative as well as positive." Most of the money has gone to developing countries and generally "to incumbent moderate party leaders and heads of state." One "Third World leader" received $960,000 over a l4-year period.

The second largest covert action category is "media and propaganda." The committee found that 29 percent of the covert projects approved by the Forty Committee fell under this heading. The report says: "Activities have included support of friendly media, major propaganda efforts, insertion of articles into he local press, and distribution of books and leaflets. By far the largest single recipient has been a European publishing house funded since 1951... About 25 percent of the program has been directed at the Soviet Bloc, in the publication and clandestine import and export of Western and Soviet dissident literature."

The third largest category is "Paramilitary/Arms Transfers." These make up 23 percent of the total Forty Committee-approved. covert action, projects. Although these rank third in total numbers they rank first in expense. The committee report states: "By far the most interesting, and important fact to emerge was the recognition that the great majority of these covert action projects were proposed by parties outside CIA. Many of these programs were summarily ordered, over CIA objections. CIA misgivings, however, were at times weakly expressed, as the CIA is afflicted with a 'can do' attitude."

........more.............

[teryang]

1. "Somebody stop me!"

<"By far the most interesting, and important fact to emerge was the recognition that the great majority of these covert action projects were proposed by parties outside CIA. Many of these programs were summarily ordered, over CIA objections. CIA misgivings, however, were at times weakly expressed, as the CIA is afflicted with a 'can do' attitude.">

Arms proliferation. America's number one.

The devil made me do it.

[AP]

2. Venezuela, France, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Zimbabwe.

I'm sure they've spent tax money there and many othe places too.

[NashVegas]

3. Remember the Criticism of the NYT for uncredited Stringers This Summer?

CIA acknowledges that "stringers," and others with whom the Agency has a relationship are often directed to insert Agency-composed "news" articles into foreign publications and wire services. U.S. intelligence officials do not rule out the possibility that these planted stories may find their way into American newspapers from time to time, but insist that CIA does not intentionally propagandize in this country.

[Wwagsthedog]

4. How about a credited source?

Specifically, Judith Miller. She was probably the most outrageous organizer of news items as an "embedded" reporter in the Persian Gulf. Miller was a vigorous promoter of Ahmed Chalabi plus other pro-administratiion activities on behalf of the NYT. Two paychecks must be nice.

[AP]

5. I need to keep pointing out that Miller was one of the last people

David Kelly contacted before he died. He called her a friend.

People think Blair and Bush are buddies. I think Bush is trying to take down Blair, and Blair is standing tall for the anti-fascists.

[teryang]

7. Can you elaborate?

I also think it is significant that Kelly contacted Blair when he was warned during his MND interrogation not to talk to the press. It was a violation of ministry policy to talk to the press without approval. Yet he did it again and was dead soon afterward. I the Kelly fiasco put an end to the WMD bullshit. While his death was a lose lose situation for Blair, on balance it helped the neocons and Blair because it silenced an authoritative source contradicting the two colonialists.

As to taking down Blair, Blair is a Rhodesian like the Neocon regime here. He believes in military adventurism and empire. They really see eye to eye on this. Of course he does come from the other side of the aisle. I don't know that the conservatives could pull this off. It reminds of the Disraeli-Gladstone orientation in Britain over a hundred years ago.

[Octafish]

6. BFEE Buys a Lot of Air Time

Carl Bernstein wrote about the state interference in the press in a seminal article in The Village Voice in the late 1970s. The CIA, according to government sources Bernstein got on the record, has embedded agents as journalists. Anybody who’s anybody. For years.

Regarding elections: October Surprise in 1980 involved Don Gregg and Robert Gates, spooks friendly to Poppy who remianed inside the Carter administration and later surfaced as "helpers" with Iran.

In 2000: A "former" CIA officer happened also to be a GOP campaign official in Florida who helped Repugs receive absentee ballots, while ignoring Demos who requested ballots. The guy even admitted to being left alone with the Florida election record computers for a while. He testified in Judge Lewis(?)'s courtroom.

[dusty64]

8. Why am I not surprised.

No doubt this is happening here, what are the links between the CIA and the "election" machine companies. I remember seeing some.